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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
I would normally agree with you 100%. However, in the past couple of weeks, I personally have tried to help at least 4 or 5 people with this exact scenario. (I should forward my PM's to you, to show you the unfortunate and sad failed repair attempts, there have been quite a few people with this issue) Every one of them was on CM7, and reported that completely out of the blue, after everything had been stable for a while, no changes were made, that the phone shut itself off and goes into a splash screen loop. From that point, I've been unable to help any of them recover. I've seen at least 4 or 5 other cases of the exact scenario that I wasn't involved with helping. Every single one has had to replace the phone. RUU's won't work for some reason, running an RUU in fastboot wont work, typing the fastboot commands for RUU doesn't work, flashing a PC36IMG of recovery or a ROM doesn't work. Then once they resort to taking it back to sprint, they can't fix it either. After all the people I've witnessed this happen to, the only common denominator is that they've all been on CM7. Some were using clockwork, some Amon Ra, so the recovery doesn't seem to make a difference. If any people know any other methods to try to fix for these people, please chime in. Or if anyone has any clue as to what could possibly cause something liek that to happen, out of the blue. In the meantime, it honestly has me hesitant to run CM7 at the moment. Normally most things are fixable, but this issue has yet to see a fix, so I'll stay away from CM7 in the meantime, until it's confirmed or denied that that is indeed a part of the issue. I love CM7, but not enough to even run the very very very slight risk of ths happening to me. I can't afford another Evo at the moment.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougjamal:
I, too, have noticed the recent complaints of this nature and it is frightening, to say the least. Like you, I will not nandroid restore the CM-7 RC-2 Nightly 30 backup that I have stored on my card. The crazy thing about it is the fact that the "symptoms" mirror that of those who fail to wait for the radio to update after flashing before pulling the battery. Whadaya think?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
The only thing that seems different in your situation is that you can't get the RUU or PC36IMG to run without erroring out. With the OP, everything APPEARS to run successfully, but the outcome doesn't change. If I were you, I'd keep trying a few more times. Format your sd card, as has been suggested. Try to get the RUU to run without erroring out.

We tried everything man, I'm telling you guys, there is something different going on here for some reason. I spent a good long while with this guy yesterday, trying to get it ironed out. We exhausted every possible option. Formatting sd card, redownloading files, being sure the files weren't corrupted, running RUU, fastboot commanding RUU, dancing in circles with our arms in the air praying to the Evo gods, booting without the sd card in, everything. His situation, along with a handful of other guys in this EXACT scenario, has left me puzzled and perplexed.

I agree, his scenario seems to be slightly different (yet still eerily similar), as his RUU doesn't complete, nor does the PC36IMG. It leaves me with a little hope, that if he can get one to successfully complete, he may be able to recover.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
I know, it does mirror those symptoms. Prior to these few isolated cases in the past couple weeks, I didn't think there was any way to brick an Evo, other than a borked radio flash. But with all these situations in the past couple weeks, my mind has been changed. I just can't believe that nothing we try can get these guy's to recover, they do indeed seem truly bricked at the bootloader somehow, which I previously thought was impossible. I've always thought "you can get to the bootloader? Great, no worries, you couldn't possibly be bricked if you're at the bootloader." But now, when someone says they were on CM7 and they're stuck at a splash screen, my stomach drops out, lol. I just keep hoping that at least one of them can recovery, but I haven't seen it. I've just seen a bunch of guys getting replacement phones, or even worse, downgrading to an old dumb phone, because they weren't in a good financial situation to get a new Evo. But Doug, I'd love to know what the heck is causing this, and how it could happen, seemingly out of the blue. What could be happening inside that Evo, when it decides to say, "i'm done, I'll brick myself on ya" Ha.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrashL:
Beats me. I don't have insurance and I'm S-Off anyway so I might just hand on to it and see if anyone can come up with anything else.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChacocII:
i was in the same situation with a borked cm7 phone that wouldnt work, s-off, and no insurance. sprint still replaced it (my 0003 with a refurb 0004). i havent been charged anything for it yet, hoping not at all.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
If no one else comes up with anything, maybe you could try taking it to sprint anyways. You may get lucky, and have a tech that doesn't care if it's S off. You'd really have nothing to lose by trying I don't think. Or, if there was some way you could get the phone to completely brick, so you can't even get to the bootloader. I wonder if pulling the battery during the radio flash portion of an RUU would do the trick? Then if the Evo won't even turn on, Sprint would have no way of knowing it was S off.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrashL:
I thought Sprint wouldn't do anything if you were out of the 30 days and didn't have insurance. Who did you even call about it?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougjamal:
This is confusing a bit. "recovery rom"?

You are suppose to put the PC36IMG file on your SD card and then install it via the hboot/fastboot screen. To me, it appears that is what you did and was successful. Am i correct in my assumption? If not, what flashes fine as you stated above when you stated, "it flashes fine..."?

okay, cool...;)

What gets you stuck at the white HTC screen? Are you saying that after you've successfully flashed recovery and then reboot, you are stuck at the HTC screen? Did you format your card or repartition it? If so, yes, you should hang at the HTC screen because there is no OS to run.

This is somewhat encouraging.

This goes back to my initial confusion. If the recovery flashes fine then yes, you can format and re-partition your SD card. You can also do it from a PC with a card reader or from an independent card reader.

Yes, it has and it has been noted as posted by my friend, k2buckley.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 100proof:
I can get straight recovery roms to flash i.e. amon ra or clockwork (only the small 3mb or so ones work, not the larger ones like sprint lover Amon RA) , and this will get me out of the four triangle error that a signed stock rom pc36img.zip or an RUU will put me in . Any correct ruu fails installation at "remote 51: partition update fail" in fastboot through cmd or "(8) wimax - FU-P , failed partition update" when running an ruu.exe (you have to unplug the usb to see this error in bootloader or it will stay on the four triangle error) -

then the process repeats. I can flash amon ra and get out of the four triangles the ruu caused but then Im back at my initial problem of the htc white screen boot loop.

It does seem that I may be an odd case since im getting the partition error running images, but it all started with the same out of the blue, no recovery, white screen boot loop. I'm guessing if an ruu WOULD flash all the way it would just be stuck in the same boot loop everyone else is getting .

Again, sorry if I'm being unclear in any of this. I'm even starting to confuse myself at this point
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
the phone has a 1 year warranty on it, which is still valid. If you take it to sprint, you *could* get lucky, and have them do something about it right there. Or, they might tell you to call HTC and deal with them, as that is who the 1 year warranty is throught (manufacturers warranty)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChacocII:
i got my evo in august i think so i was definately out of the 30 days. i believe he warranty replaced it because it was less than a year old even tho i told him i rooted it and told him i was aware that rooting voided the warranty. then he even had it overnighted for free. i just called sprint customer service and started telling the girl who answered about my problem and started talking about ruu's and pc36img files and she interrupted me to tell me she was transferring me to a tech cuz she didnt have a clue what any of the things i was talking about were.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
Man, I'm not sure at this point. Doug's going to make some suggestoins for you, that you should try. I wish you luck, and hope he can help you get it straightened out!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougjamal:
My suggestion is for you to reflash your baseband/radio being that the symptoms mirror that of a failed radio flash, however, that is somewhat useless if you can't get into recovery in order to flash it. If for some reason anyone with similar problems can install or reinstall amon RA via the hboot/fastboot screen and then into recovery, try reflashing the baseband and then a rom. Has anyone tried shutting down the device, removing the SD card and then booting into the Hboot screen by holding the volume down button while pressing the power button?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 100proof:
I have tried it with and without the sd card many , many times. I get the exact same result. Same goes for fastboot flashing with and without an sd card. Ive also formated my sd card several times and have tried three different ones at this point.

I think my problem that is stopping my stock ruu's and pc36img's from finishing their flash process is the PHONES partition for wimax and not an sdcard partition. I haven't found much info on this and in every search i just find wimax key protection info and how to back up a wimax image ( which i have with nandroid but with no recovery that does me no good)

Again I have a feeling that if anything flashed to completion I would still be in the same reboot cycle i was in with to begin with, but Ill keep trying for now.

p.s. Does anyone know about erasing an image in fastboot that will stop the screen from loading?(like boot.img , i read possibly screen.img) I found a thread about this as a worse case scenario to get the bootloader to not come up so s-off would not be detected , but there was no definitive answer found.

And thanks for all the trouble shooting help. I have visited this site daily and always read up on everything , but this makes me realize I need to be a more active member and try to share some of my knowledge too.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
Out of curiosity, what leads you to believe it's the Wimax partition that is the problem? I'm very curious about what could be causing this issue. I was (speculating) that it could possibly be the recovery partition, maybe? Again, that's pure speculation, I'm just pondering possibilities. I don't know how to use fastboot commands to do as you were suggesting, removing the boot.img. For some reason, I thought you needed to be on the eng .76 hboot for fastboot commands to work, but maybe I misunderstood something. If there was anyway for you to flash a radio, perhaps using a PC36IMG, and were to pull the battery during the radio flash, that could brick it (under normal circumstances, that would definitely brick it) I'm not sure how else to intentionally brick a phone, so they can't see your bootloader. It has to be discreet. I wonder if you found a way to apply an incorrect voltage (maybe direct 115VAC haha) to the charging port, I bet that would fry it! (not totally serious....i dont think) Tell spring you had a power surge or something when you were charging your phone, and it won't turn on any more. LOL. That's probably a pretty ridiculous idea, but I bet it would fry it! (if you're crazy enough to try that, like I would, just don't do it with the battery in. I'd think that could potentially be dangerous. ha)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 100proof:
When any ruu fails it will stay on the htc loading screen with the error triangles, but if you unplug the usb it will take you into bootloader and you can see that it fails during the wimax partition update. If i reboot or recover then it goes straight to the four triangles and you can not even acess bootloader untill you reflash amon ra or clockwork via fastboot commands
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
Got ya. That's definitely interesting.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrashL:
Any experiments I could run that would help you guys narrow this down?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
well, what is your situation right now?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
Dude, I am personally out of ideas. Everything I know to try, you have tried. It would take someone with more intricate knowledge (a dev) to tell you if there is even anything else you can try. Does ADB or fastboot work for you? Either ? If you can't run adb or fastboot commands, I doubt there's anything further you can even try. If you can run adb or fastboot commands, perhaps there is something else you can try, to at least find out what's wrong, pull a logcat when it's trying to boot if you can. However, if there are more things you can try, I unfortunately don't know what they are. Try pulling a logcat when the phone is trying to boot, and hangs at the htc evo screen, if you can get adb to work. I'm not sure if you can get a logcat through fastboot commands? Maybe?

Man, he tried everything, literally. RUU's, PC36IMG's, formatting the SD card, trying to boot without the SD card, flashing recoveries, fastboot RUU, nothing worked man. He just is stuck on the splash screen, no matter what. I have no further suggestions, unfortunately. Anything else from me, at this point is just total guesswork! I have no clue what's wrong with his phone, it's an odd situation. Random bootloop while running CM, out of the blue, then he's in this situation. It puzzles me greatly.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Well as long as I'm not the only one...I've had him do everything I know, and that should have worked and has worked flawlessly.

Place your phone on the bed, take a pillow, and yell, "THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELLS YOU!" as you hit it 3 times, once each as you hit it, then try again.

And you are able to run logcat from adb though, fastboot I'm not sure.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
LMAO! haha. Yea, time to start praying to the Evo gods and doing some ritualistic type Evo repair. haha

with adb, if you

adb logcat > logcat.txt

it should put a copy of the logcat in your sdk tools folder. I've done that before, but I have no idea if you can with fastboot. I haven't really had to use fastboot at all really.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Gotta love the exorcist.

And yea man, try logcat with adb, and try the pillow trick...I've seen it been known to work. Personally as well, never had to use fastboot, played with it once or twice.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rtp04:
can you please help me? every time i flash a rom ,any rom and reboot it freezes at the htc evo white screen . any rom i flash seems to work but cant ever get past the white screen .please help
[Nook Color General] jerrykur:
Is there any way to get BT GPS support without CM7? I use my NC as a reader and do not want to lose the standard reader functionality.

Thanks.

Jerry
[Nook Color General] JeeZues:
I'm ale to connect to my Holux GPSlim236 BT GPS to my NC using "Bluetooth GPS" from the market. Using the latest CM7 nighty build.
[Nook Color General] xdajunkman:
Impossible without rooting device, no other custom ROM currently supports BT than CM7.
[Nook Color General] thoukudides:
Why not just run CM7 off the SD card? Have your, uh, Gingerbread and eat it, too.
[Nook Color General] acomiskey:
You can run tethergps and get gps over wifi....not bt.
[Nook Color General] japzone:
Search Dev forum for this Topic:

"ROM CM7 SD Bootable, w/ experimental BT working" posted by verygreen

Runs CM7 off a MicroSD so you don't have to screw around with Stock or EMMC. I personally haven't Rooted my Stock, yet I've run Android 2.2, 2.3, and 3.0 all from MicroSDs.

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[Nook Color General] lafester:
so why does a reader need gps?

sounds to me like you want a tablet...

there's plenty of reader apps on the market but only one way to get bluetooth.
[Nook Color General] khaytsus:
Well....... I use Bluetooth GPS Provider to connect my Holux 236 GPS to my Nexus One and then TetherGPS to share it to my Nook Color.

So my stock rooted Nook Color is using a bluetooth GPS. Does that count? ;)
[Atrix 4G General] Jim_R:
Is it just me, or does anybody else find themselves occasionally holding the phone upside down and firmly pressing the speaker grill? :p I know it's offset, but still unfortunate positioning!
[Atrix 4G General] Clienterror:
My speaker grill has a nice dent :)
[Atrix 4G General] joelszs:
Mine too!!!! So annoying!!!!
[Atrix 4G General] Namuh:
lol Do it all the time!
[Atrix 4G General] mosincredible:
I took my TPU case off and put it back on upside down on accident once and was so confused when I couldn't find my power/lock button...
[Atrix 4G General] Greenbelt:
Guilty
[Atrix 4G General] LayzeeEyez:
Lol happened a few times
[Atrix 4G General] JayRolla:
First two weeks I did this, even felt I bent the grill in a little on accident, but now I rarely to never do it since I got so used to where its at now.
[Atrix 4G General] raybond25:
definitely have done that before too, lol
[Atrix 4G General] robwscott83:
Haaaa.. +1 for me... this is too funny thought I was the only one....
[Atrix 4G General] chriscerv:
Ive done this too haha! Every since I got my case (otter box, the cheaper one) doesn't happen anymore :)
[Atrix 4G General] zero325:
LoL, almost crushed mine out of the case.
[Atrix 4G General] mgymnop:
LOL, and I thought I am the only one who is always pushing the loudspeaker grill.
[Atrix 4G General] madnav:
sounds nuts but yes, it happens atleast once in a day.. :P
[Atrix 4G General] MDK666:
Lol. Yep
[Atrix 4G General] theonedub:
Happens every so often.

Sent from my Atrix
[Atrix 4G General] MiteMouse:
Knock on wood...Haven't happen to me yet (1 week old)
[Atrix 4G General] Ciloteille:
I had that thought, and when I first got the phone, it happened 90% of the time.

Then I bought a 6 dollar case off ebay, a rubbery-like one. And now the unlock part has a raised bump. Now I never do.
[Atrix 4G General] CC Lemon:
This thread has been amusing lol... glad to hear I'm not the only one who did it. My biggest concern was damaging the thing, but it doesn't seem to be too fragile, fortunately. Like others, I got used to positioning/feel of the actual button so I haven't done it in a while.
[Atrix 4G General] digitalallstar:
Guilty as charged. Ive done it about half a dozen times. Lol at this thread!
[Atrix 4G General] NonovUrbizniz:
+45 I do it EVERY Time i pull it from the car dock.
[Atrix 4G General] kandroid:
every single day!
[Atrix 4G General] tuantuti:
Sometimes when i dont pay attention, i will pressed real hard on the grill to turn on the phones :d they felt the same to me when not lookijng at it :)
[Atrix 4G General] bimmerboii:
Happens to me almost daily lol
[Atrix 4G General] techiesam:
mine has 2 big dents..it happens all the time
[Atrix 4G General] SpeeDemon:
I actually make a habit now of moving my finger to the side of the lock/speaker grill to ensure that I have found the correct "slot" for my finger. There's definitely a different feel and it no longer happens to me :-)
[Atrix 4G General] FLAC Vest:
I definitely did thhat one outbreak two rimes; not hard enough to cause damage but I remember looking and noticing that there was no button under my finger lol
[Atrix 4G General] tianqi:
Its quite an annoying design...
[Atrix 4G General] dac1227:
+1, drives me nuts
[Atrix 4G General] DJ Yoshiman:
Are you kidding?

I've got to be the only person so far that has not done that once, at all.
[Atrix 4G General] Mitty1990:
Guilty lol :D
[HTC Inspire 4G] niksha:
Anyone local here that can help me root htc inspire??Would really appreciate it))
[HTC Inspire 4G] SysAdmNj:
What method are you using? How far did you get?
[HTC Inspire 4G] lrs421:
Have you tried the video? It literally walks you through it. No need to have someone come to your home :)

Sent from Desire HD or Inspire 4G or whatever this thing is called via premium XDA app.
[HTC Inspire 4G] niksha:
just dloaded the htc sync.hate to uninstall my eset anti virus tho. will it not work if i disable it??
[HTC Inspire 4G] lrs421:
It's just recommended. Should still work.

Sent from Desire HD or Inspire 4G or whatever this thing is called via premium XDA app.
[HTC Inspire 4G] niksha:
HELPPPPPP i got to the stage where it says press power button once to enter HBoot then press enter on your keyboard. It did that and then i pressed enter twice on the keyboard. then what was supposed to come up was the part where it is supposed to say your phone should now search for the PD98IMG.zip. but it never did. then the computer said that it could not recognize the android driver. now the command prompt box is stuck at *daemon started successfully* and is not doing anything and has not for the past 10 min. should i turn off the phone and start all over?
[HTC Inspire 4G] niksha:
Got it! Now i have to figure out which custom rom to install.Any suggestions??Guess it wasn't that hard after all. Thank god i have a son that knows how to do it!!
[HTC Inspire 4G] niksha:
ok so i Rooted inspire last nite.Tried getting into recovery mode to put theme on but cant move down on volume key. it automatically goes to h boot and asks me for an update .i press down volume key for no and phone reboots . how do i get into recovery mode
[HTC Inspire 4G] niksha:
ok so now i Rooted inspire last nite.Tried getting into recovery mode to put theme on but cant move down on volume key. it automatically goes to h boot and asks me for an update .i press down volume key for no and phone reboots . how do i get into recovery mode
[HTC Inspire 4G] homeslice976:
You still have a PD98IMG.zip file on your SD card. As long as this is there, bootloader will always try to automatically update with this file through HBoot. You need to remove this file from the SD card and you'll be able to boot to recovery
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cdejesus1119:
Hi Guys,

I used the easy root method and i want to unroot and return to stock. From my understanding when rooting you actually downgrade your software/radio version. I downloaded the file under the thread easy unroot, but how do i load it?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jrocker23:
Here you go http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1004263
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cdejesus1119:
the link doesnt explain how to load the file or unroot.. thats what i need help with. I even PM'd the person who started the thread.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doug piston:
Download that file and rename to PG05IMG.zip, boot into hboot and phone should do the rest.
[HTC Inspire 4G] RMSublime12:
Hey all. When I try to enter command hackerize-ace setup-downgrade I recieve this. help :(

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]

Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>cd C:\Users\Ronnie\Downloads\Root

C:\Users\Ronnie\Downloads\Root>hackerize-ace setup-downgrade

1676 KB/s (557962 bytes in 0.325s)

1405 KB/s (15837 bytes in 0.011s)

mmap() failed. Operation not permitted

Starting adb shell to test temp root, please be patient...

if you see a '#' prompt, okay to proceed

if you see a '$' prompt, temproot failed

type exit at the prompt to continue

The system cannot find the path specified.

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